Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.
My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.
I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.
I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.
I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.
So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
You believe that you're going to be forever young.
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.
I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.
Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, "Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas."
A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?
I know there's Botox and all these skin-firming treatments, but I'm afraid they'll make me look weird.
Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.
